If you know Phil Baroni at all, you also know he’s not the type of guy to hold back on punches or words. With a big fight coming up on ONE FC: “Rise to Power” on May 31 against Karate expert Nobutatsu Suzuki, Baroni is at a point in his career where it’s time to […]

08 April 2013 – Singapore: ONE Fighting Championship™ (ONE FC), presented by Casino Filipino and in association with Universal Reality Combat Championship (URCC), announced today three undercard bouts for ONE FC: RISE TO POWER. Up and coming Lowen Tynanes will battle the seasoned Felipe Enomoto while MMA veteran Tim Sylvia is back in action against […]

Singapore is a paradise. Looking out from my hotel window, the landscape is broken by tall monoliths that seemed to have been left here by an alien race. To the north, the ocean gently slopes into the bay, where hundreds of ships appear frozen in time at the head of a waterfront canal. Skyscrapers, villas, […]

02 May 2013 – Manila: ONE Fighting Championship™ (ONE FC) has formed an exclusive agreement with Yahoo! Philippines, the number one news site in the Philippines. Yahoo! Philippines will feature exclusive content on its website all year long, including exclusive interviews with fighters, behind the scenes footage and feature highlight stories. Yahoo! readers will also […]

Imanari 27-11-2 with a whopping 17 submission wins. Many of those wins from Toe Holds, reverse heel hooks, achilles lock, heel hook and a knee bar. Imanari is looking to return to the ONE FC cage after two successful wins for DEEP. We are pretty sure we know what his ONE FC walk-out song will be…. […]

18 April 2013 – Manila: ONE Fighting Championship™ (ONE FC), presented by Casino Filipino and in association with Universal Reality Combat Championship (URCC), announced three additional bouts for ONE FC: RISE TO POWER. Kevin Belingon will battle Masakatsu Ueda in the final of the Bantamweight Grand Prix. The winner will get a shot at the […]

Last Friday saw the Submission Savant, Shinya Aoki, break down Kotetsu Boku to win the ONE FC lightweight belt. We also witnessed Brock Larson survive a cartoonish Coyote/Roadrunner encounter to take a unanimous decision victory over Melvin Manhoef. While those wins are both well and good, they leave the middleweight and lightweight divisions at somewhat […]

The ONE FC lightweight division crowned a new champion when Shinya Aoki submitted Kotetsu Boku in the second round of their championship bout. Aoki displayed superior grappling that knockout specialist Boku simply had no answer to. The finish came in round two when Shinya Aoki sunk in a rear naked choke that resulted in Boku […]

Melvin Manhoef 27 wins with 25 knockouts…. he is possibly the most exciting fighter in MMA. Manhoef wins – you see a knockout – a brutal body of a muscle & might with fast twitch fibers that have opponents shaking in there boots. Manhoef has been rumored to be UFC bound, but for now the ‘Marvelous’ one is […]